No sound in Firefox extensions after update to 3.6

Mogger · 2010-02-05 00:12:16

I have some extensions[1] that are supposed to play a sound (wav) when something happens, for example when I get a new mail. This worked well before. However, since the update to Firefox 3.6, they're completely mute.

I updated a lot of packages today, so I'm not sure it's because of the Firefox update.

Sound in Flash etc. still work, it only seems to affect extensions. Using Gmail Notifier[2] I was able to get:

[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsISound.play]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://gm-notifier/content/gm-preferences.xul :: previewSound :: line 210" data: no]

Anyone who knows anything about this problem?

Tried both firefox-3.6-2 (extra) and firefox-kde-opensuse (AUR), i686.
Doesn't work after reboot.
Doesn't work with a new user.
No hints when running Firefox from a terminal.

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[1] Gmail Manager, Download Statusbar
[2] Gmail Notifier

wonder · 2010-02-05 00:18:27

maybe you should report on mozilla extension page. it might be incompatible with 3.6

Last edited by wonder (2010-02-05 00:18:40)

Mogger · 2010-02-05 00:41:57

They claim to be compatible, and I find it odd that all three don't work.

Mektub · 2010-02-28 00:08:03

Mogger,

sorry to revive this thread, but did you make any progress on this problem ?

I have the same symptoms, my extensions that had sound don't have it any more (Download Status Bar, FEBE).

Mektub

Mogger · 2010-02-28 01:08:28

Unfortunately I haven't had much time to dig deeper into this issue. If you find a solution, I would appreciate if you could write it here (I'll do the same, of course).

Mektub · 2010-02-28 15:17:41

Mogger,

Some FF version, same extensions, win7 doesn't have the sound problem.

I only found one complain about this missing sounds after extensive goggling and checking the comments
on the FF extensions pages.

Since they can't be all deaf, I am inclined to same particular problem to our installations, perhaps some
extensions incompatibility.

Since this is not that important, I will forget about it for the time being and just go to the beach.

Mektub

Mektub · 2010-03-04 00:26:04

Mogger,

Atlantic storm, so no beach.
Instead, did some more testing.

I am inclined to same particular problem to our installations, perhaps some
extensions incompatibility.

Nope. Opened a brand new user with only one extension that produces sound, to no avail.

Oh boy.

Mektub

Mogger · 2010-09-27 12:47:12

Seems like I've found the problem - for some strange reason esd must be running in order for Firefox to play sounds. I tracked it down by searching on Google and noticed that some Thundebird users had the same issue, and found the solution here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … dy-821725/

Now the question is, how to I change this? I tried to run

aoss firefox

but it didn't seem to work (no application, no error messages).

Last edited by Mogger (2010-09-27 12:47:43)

Mektub · 2010-09-27 14:36:59

Mogger,

Ja! underbar!

I don't know what "aoss" is, I suppose it has something to do with OSS.

I am using ALSA. Just startted

/usr/bin/esd &

in the command line and the FF sounds reappeared! Well, well...

Until now I didn't see any bad effects on my other (alsa) sounds, but we will see.

I put the ESD line in /etc/rc.local, will see when I reboot tomorrow if it still works.

Thanks, Mogger.

Mektub

Arch Linux

#1 2010-02-05 00:12:16

No sound in Firefox extensions after update to 3.6

#2 2010-02-05 00:18:27

Re: No sound in Firefox extensions after update to 3.6

#3 2010-02-05 00:41:57

Re: No sound in Firefox extensions after update to 3.6

#4 2010-02-28 00:08:03

Re: No sound in Firefox extensions after update to 3.6

#5 2010-02-28 01:08:28

Re: No sound in Firefox extensions after update to 3.6

#6 2010-02-28 15:17:41

Re: No sound in Firefox extensions after update to 3.6

#7 2010-03-04 00:26:04

Re: No sound in Firefox extensions after update to 3.6

#8 2010-09-27 12:47:12

Re: No sound in Firefox extensions after update to 3.6

#9 2010-09-27 14:36:59

Re: No sound in Firefox extensions after update to 3.6

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